Who wants to live forever? Scientist sees aging cured

Who wants to live forever? Scientist sees aging cured

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LONDON (Reuters) - If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger.

A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that within his own lifetime doctors could have all the tools they need to "cure" aging -- banishing diseases that come with it and extending life indefinitely"What we can actually predict in terms of how long people will live is absolutely nothing, becau

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Im pritty sure it will be out of our price range we are just the peasant workers.
I can just see it now150year old rich bankers, with corporate bilderberg types pushing 190 meeting for Kissinger and Rothschilds 256 birthday.

Maybe if we are lucky we will have our great great grandchildren waiting there table serving them up some Castle De Rothschild 2012 Vintage Wine.

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Im pretty sure this has been posted before....many times.

Il go have a look on the "search" and post back my findings...but im almost certain this has been covered.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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That sure is going to throw a kink into the Social Security and Pension systems!

Imagine me retiring at 62 with Social Security, my State Pension, my house and cars paid off, and living for another 90 years!! Now that is something to look forward too!!

Yeah this would never be affordable for the serfs. If I am wrong and it is affordable, this is where the death panels come in.

loves a conspiricy member, Your findings lol Its a new news story look at the date im sure the subject has been covered im sure but not THIS story, I looked. I read it on the news headlines from Routers and Yahoo so keep your " findings" to yourself lol you looking to be a mod or something lol

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Oh ya, that quote, "The first people to live to be 150 are alive today," has been covered many times on ATS, but you are correct, this is a new Reuters article, and the research and technology is evolving so fast, that a new thread could probably go up every other day, and still have new information to share.

All the while, my buddy is only 29, and is struggling with kicking his cancer, and is getting really tired of all the runaround he gets from his Chemo doctors.

The elites want a stupid slave class and then for themselves all the wealth, power and technology. So yes, the overlords will live for hundreds of years while lowly slaves have short life spans, never achieving development enough to rise above. Disgusting, really, but that's what's coming down the pike.

I doubt there has been no preperation for this very obvious inevitibility.

Very few people want to live forever. Most WANT to die in a socially acceptable way.

Originally posted by bane9907
Yeah this would never be affordable for the serfs. If I am wrong and it is affordable, this is where the death panels come in.

Oh it could be, and then the state will push back the retirement age to 100+ years old!
An near immortal army of worker drones to push productivity through the roof!

It looks like a certainty now that they can sustain the body indefinitely but what about the mind. Some of these corporate billionaire types are meaniacs and are totally twisted morally, what the hell would they be like with a 250 year old twisted brain and the money and power to back it.

I dont think this is something to fear. Human society will adapt around it. In fact it probably cant come too soon to avoid calamity in the western world.

At the moment we can keep people alive but we cant keep them useful or give them quality of life. In most countries its not possible to give a humane way out either when the pain gets unbearable. We have increasing population of the medicated infirm and a smaller population of working age to support them.

This eliminates that problem at a stroke.

I can actually see a lot of benefits. I'm a lot less gullible now than I was in my first 3 decades. Most people wish that they knew in their 20s what they know in their 50s. This makes that kind of applied wisdom possible. An increasingly experienced yet still physically young population.

Bring it on.

It wouldnt work-overpopulation result unless there was something tied to life extension such as if yuo choose to do so then you would have to opt out of pro-creating.

I would rather transfer to what I believe is the afterlife like nature intended.

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You should have your friend read this thread: abovetopsecret.com

There are a lot of alternative treatments for cancer if you're willing to do the research.

As for the OP, I can't see extended life spans for the entire populace as being a good thing. Theres already an over population problem as is. Not to mention massive food shortages. Besides, who whats another 100 years of paying taxes.

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Dam 29 on chemo treatment, i seen my mother on that. Its just as bad as the big C itself. It's a crime against humanity with what their polluting us with and making billions on the treatments.
Maybe one good thing about thes elites living forever is that maybe one day normal people in the distant future take control of the world and throw them subhuman abonanations in jail for the rest of their life.

to bad that treatments, and the technology for this will only be used for that exclusive 1% if you know what I mean. But to answer the question, ya I would like to live forever, and see what becomes of things in this world, I'm not really religious so I suppose sticking around here on this rock for a while longer might be pretty cool. Plus the knowledge that you would be able to gain after so many years of life experience would be unreal.

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I'm sure "like nature intended" never included
- Antibiotics
- Painkillers
- C-Sections
- The Birthrate success ratio of humans due to modern medicine
- Domestication of animals
- Domestication of land and plants
- Splitting of atoms by artificial means
- Artificial Plastics
- Bronze
- Tempered Steel
- Minds of Sapient Creatures Dancing Together On Rivers Of Light (i.e. The internet)
- Wingless mammals breaking the sound barrier
- Dentistry
- Modern Medicine
- Genetic modification of viruses to create immunity within Humans
- Setting of broken bones
- Surgery
- Modern Medicine as a whole.

I could go on all day. However, it won't be needed. Nature intended for us to be able to do whatever we can within the rules of this reality. That means everything and anything. If we are the creation of the infinite creator/God/the universe, are we not a part of it? Do we not share it's brilliance?

This is our destiny. The next thing to cure is war between Sentient creatures. Once this has been achieved, the kingdom will come by our hands.

My friends, can you see it, it is not a sunrise for humanity...nay, it is a Galaxy Rise upon the horizon.
It's beautiful...

I'm glad I'll be dead before this comes to pass. Can you imagine the evil rulers of this world living to be 1000 years old? No doubt in my mind they will assume the role of gods, and have full dominion over the mindless worker drones. Humanity is on the verge of splitting in two.

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Yes but there is obvious reasons why humans dont have an unlimited lifespan, for the record I dont take painkillers etc, also I dont believe in a GOD or any religions. I go by my own experiences when I say an afterlife. Anyway I agree the earth should be appreciated to the fullest, however just because we have the technology to cancel out mother nature that does not mean we should. If we continue to put our middle finger up to the nature the more we will nature will fight back. Its cool if people want to live forever, but I find beauty in the human body, mind and soul and how natural life operates. Life with out an end is just as meaningless as never existing in the first place.